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(No Model.)

W. F. DRAPER.

LOOM.

No. 587,652. Patentd Au 3,1897.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFI E;

WILLIAM F. DRAPER, OF IIOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE NORTI-IROP LOOM COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE AND SACO, MAINE.

L O O M SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 587,652, dated August 3, 1897.

Application filed January 4, 1897. Serial No. 617,369. No model.)

To all whom it may concern: is represented in Fig. 3, and the bridge A Beit known that I, WILLIAM F. DRAPER, of are and may be all as common in United States llopedale, county of Worcester, State of Mas- Patent No. 538,507, dated April 30, 1895. sachusetts, have invented an Improvement In accordance with my invention I have 5 in Looms, of which the following description, placed in the head or disk a and in each one in connection with the accompanying drawof its notches a guide a said guides being so ings, is a specification, like letters on the located therein that when the filling-carriers drawings representing like parts. B are being putinto the feeder the slots B'in In that class oflooms known asautomatic the heads of the carriers will embrace each lo and builtundertheNorthrop patents,ofwhich one of said guides, thus preventing any lia United States Patent No. 529,940, dated Nobility of the said carriers from being rotated vember 27, 1804:, is a type, wherein the fillingwhile in said feeder or while being removed ing-carriers are held in a revolving fillingfrom said feeder by the action against it of carrier feeder, the said filling-carriers are, the end of the pusher f. I have also so I 5 due to the jarring of the loom in rapid opcrashaped the head of the filling-carrier that tion, liable to rotate in the feeder and wind it presents two flat or secant surfaces 1), and or unwind the weft, which is apt to be injuwhen a carrier is removed from the feeder rious to the operation of the loom. It is also one of these flat sides tends to and does convery advantageous to prevent the rotation of tact with the flat'upper side of a carrier then 20 the filling-carrier as it is being put into the in the shuttle, so that the carrier being put shuttle to eject therefrom the filling-carrier into the shuttle cannot turn or rotate at all, then in the shuttle. To obviate the turning due to the pressure of one carrier against of the filling-carrier in the feeder, I'have proanother. vided the head of the carrier with a trans- The metallic rings 0 on the head of the carv 25 verse slot and the feeder with a series of rarier are common to Patent No. 538,507, above dial guides which receive the slotted heads referred to. of the carriers. I have also so shaped the 'It will be noticed that the flattened sides of heads of the carriers as to present two'secant the head of the filling-carrier, as the latter is surfaces, which surfaces, when the carriers removed by the pusher from the feeder into o meet and are being pushed together, act one position between the jaws of the shuttle, on the other to prevent any rotation of the strike the flattened face of the abutment A carriers. connected with the shuttle and having its Figure 1 shows a sufficient portion of a fillfree end located between the jaws A, said ing-carrier feeder, together with a pusher, flattened surface byits contact with said 3 5 with my improvements added, to enable my abutmentmaterially aiding in preventing the invention to be understood. Fig. 2 shows the accidental slipping or sidewise motion of the filling-carrier on a larger scale; Fig. 3, a part filling-carrier. of a shuttle with part of a filling carrier Having described my invention, what' I therein. claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 40 The filling-feeder, composed of the notched Patent, is-

head or disk a at one end of a sleeve (4 1. In an automatic loom, a filling-carrier mounted on a stud a, said notched head or feeder provided with radial guides to engage disk running inside the stationary flanged the filling-carriers to prevent their rotation v ring or plate 0, and the pusher f, mounted in the feeder and to aid in directing them in 5 on the stndf, are and may be all as in said their removal from said feeder, substantially patent, while the arm f connected to the as described. hub of the pusher and carrying the tip-snp- 2. Afilling-feeder having notches to receive porting device f are and may be all as usual the head of a filling-carrier and provided with in United States Patent No. 529,042, dated a series of guides placed in said notches to [00 50 November 27, 1894. restrain the rotation of the said carriers in The shuttle A, having jaws A, one of which said notches, combined with apusher to act on lying upon the flattened portions of the head, 10 substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM F. DRAPER.

lVitnesses:

GEO. OTIs DRAPER, A W. BEARDSELL. 

